She Told Them I Dropped Out of Medical School — Five Years Later, I Walked Into the ER as Her Attending Physician

to die in the next thirty to forty minutes if the best surgeon in this building didn’t operate.

And the best surgeon in this building was me.

I paged Patel directly. “I have a conflict of interest. The patient is a family member. I’m disclosing it now and documenting in the chart. If at any point my judgment is compromised, you take the lead. No questions continue reading …